Eyes Quotes II

All our souls are written in our eyes.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ~W. H. Auden

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~ German proverb

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. ~ Jean Toomer

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. ~ Horace

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone’s eyes.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. ~ G. K. Chesterton

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream. ~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. ~ Benjamin Franklin

They are wrong who say that love is blind. On the contrary, nothing – not even the smallest detail – escapes the eyes; one sees everything in the loved one, notices everything; but melts it all into one flame with the great and simple: I love you.

An animal will always look for a person’s intentions by looking them right in the eyes. ~ H. Powers

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. ~Pope John XXIII

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire. ~ Proverb

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ~ Proverb

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. ~ Francis William Bourdillon

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. ~ Joseph Addison

The eye is the jewel of the body. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

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